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1. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2021

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

2. Housing Codes, Homelessness, and Affordable Housing

   Homelessness is a growing problem in Canada; 235,000 people have been homeless at one time or another during any given recent year. Furthermore, at any one time perhaps as many as 5,000 or more are homeless. While there are many causes of ...

3. Economic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter ...

4. The Lifetime Tax Burden for Canadians from Federal Debt Accumulation

   Federal debt has risen substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic and is projected to continue rising for the foreseeable future. Large deficits come with costs and Canadians will have to pay for our borrowing today through additional taxation ...

5. Voting with Their Feet: Migration in Atlantic Canada

   Migration is a perennial topic of interest in Atlantic Canada. Out-migration specifically has been widely recognized as both a symptom of the region’s economic weakness and a potential threat to its future well-being. Atlantic Canada experienced a ...

6. The Quarterly- Fall 2021

   Published four times a year for Fraser Institute supporters, The Quarterly offers a roundup of critical research studies and commentaries written by Fraser Institute experts. The Quarterly- Fall 2021 ...

7. Economic Freedom Promotes Upward Income Mobility

   The costs of government regulation, including labour regulations such as licencing and accreditation, represent a real barrier for Canadians—especially low-income Canadians—trying to move up the income ladder, finds a new study released today by the ...

8. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, Fall 2021

   This study examines changes in education spending on public schools in Canada from 2014/15 to 2018/19. It is clear from the data that Canada has increased education spending in public schools during this period beyond what was required to account for ...

9. Repairing Alberta's Heritage Fund for the Long Term

   In 1976/77, Alberta’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund was created to save a share of the province’s resource wealth so as to provide benefits to Albertans in the future. Unfortunately, the Heritage Fund has been limited in its ability to do so as consistent ...

10. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2021 edition

    The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2020. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 1,992% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...